FLAC Lossless and bitrate

[thijazi]

I ripped my CDs using dBpoweramp using the FLAC codec as the output format, and configuring dBpoweramp to use the default FLAC lossless setting (Lossless Level 5) as I intend to listen to the music on some good quality gear and don't want to use mp3 or other compressed/lossy formats.

The CDs ripped fine, however I noted that when I play these back (using JRiver Media Center for instance) the bitrate for the files shows random values ranging between 400-950+ kbps, I was wondering if this means I am not getting CD quality rips? the CD should output 1411kbps as far as I know.

Hope someone can shed some light on this.

Thanks.

[Spoon]

Re: FLAC Lossless and bitrate

No, as it shows the compressed bit rate, as lossless is like zip, it uncompresses 100% the same. So for example if it compressed 2:1 then it would show a bitrate of half.

[thijazi]

Re: FLAC Lossless and bitrate

No, as it shows the compressed bit rate, as lossless is like zip, it uncompresses 100% the same. So for example if it compressed 2:1 then it would show a bitrate of half.

Thanks for the reply, so I take it there is no reduction in quality in this case. I was a bit worried that I may have ripped my library in vain. I am keen on getting CD quality rips, no compromise

[Spoon]

Re: FLAC Lossless and bitrate

Any format which pertains to be lossless retains 100% quality all the time.